Public Reason: Mediated Authority in the Liberal State
- ISBN-10
- 080143677X
- ISBN-13
- 9780801436772
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- Fred M. Frohock, ed M. Frohock
Description
What resources do we have, Frohock asks, to develop a version of public reason which can succeed even in the deep pluralism anticipated in democratic practices?"--BOOK JACKET.
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